Lok Sabha election exit polls 2019 live: NDA all set to form the next government with 296 seats, according to poll of polls

“I have made this very clear. My efforts to forge opposition unity should not be misconstrued as my intent to further personal ambitions. My mission is to save democracy and save the idea of India,” Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu told TOI in an exclusive interview. Read more

Voting in the byelections for four Tamil Nadu Assembly constituencies — Aravakuruchi, Sulur, Thiruparankundram and Ottapidaram — began on Sunday morning. The main contest will be between the ruling AIADMK, principal opposition party DMK, and an Independent legislator TTV Dhinakaran-floated AMMK party. Actor-politician Kamal Haasan's party Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) candidates are also in the contention.

Polling for the by-election to Panaji Assembly seat in Goa began at 7 am today with BJP candidate Siddharth Kunkolienkar and Goa Suraksha Manch nominee Subhash Velingkar being among the early voters. Kunkolienkar and Velingkar reached their respective polling booths soon after the voting began and exercised their democratic right. Total 30 polling stations have been set up in the constituency, which covers areas including the state capital. The bypoll was necessitated due to the demise of sitting BJP MLA and former chief minister Manohar Parrikar, who represented the constituency for nearly two- and-a-half decades since 1994. Total six candidates, including two Independents, are contesting the bypoll.